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Dear Faculty,

I’m pleased to present the spring edition of the Academic Affairs Happenings newsletter. Inside you will

find an expanded listing of your colleague’s accomplishments in teaching, research, and service. This

work makes possible the vibrant educational experience for our students and the University’s growing

contributions to the community.

Best,

Andy Workman

Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Academic Affairs Happenings

F r o m t h e O f f i c e o f t h e P r o v o s t F e b r u a r y 2 0 1 7 V o lu m e 6 , I s s u e 2

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Susan Bosco and Diane Harvey published

their teaching case “A Tisket a Tasket, What

Happened to Market Basket” in the Case

Journal’s December 2016 issue.

Stanford, Jennifer S., Loren Byrne,

Katherine Hunting. 2016. Promoting

Evidence-Based Thinking Through the

STIRS Case Studies. Peer Review 18: 14-18.

(available online)

Sara Butler published a book chapter,

““The Garden Network: George Rogers

Hall’s Horticultural Activism,” in Foreign

Trends on American Soil, edited by

Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, recently

published by the University of Virginia

Press. Hall is noted for planting some of the

first Japanese trees and shrubs in North

America at his home in Bristol in the 19th

century.

Stanford, Jennifer S., Tami Carmichael,

Ryan J. Zerr, Loren Byrne, Richard K.

Riegelman. 2016. Actual and Potential Uses

of STIRS Case Studies in Courses and

Curricula. Peer Review 18: 23-27. (available

online)

Jeremy Campbell’s book, Conjuring

Property: Speculation and Environmental

Futures in the Brazilian Amazon, received

Honorable Mention in the 2016 Book Prize

Competition of the Association for Political

and Legal Anthropology (APLA). In their

citation, the Prize Committee wrote: “The

committee was very impressed by the scale

and depth of your fieldwork. One of the

members described her immersion into the

narrative as cinematic. The committee

commends the way in which you challenged

conventional accounts about the right and

wrong sides of history by refusing to

moralize the actions of your interlocutors in

any predictable way. We were all taken by

your work and found your analysis of the

making of property an elegant and robust

example of political and legal anthropology

at its best.” Conjuring Property, published

in 2015 by the University of Washington

Press, is based on research supported by the

RWU Foundation for the Promotion of

Scholarship and Teaching.

Research, Grants, Publications and Presentations

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Campbell was invited to deliver the

colloquium lecture in Anthropology at

Davidson College (his undergraduate alma

mater) on February 10, 2017. The title of the

talk was “Environmental Anthropology in

Amazonia: Some notes after two decades of

research.” The presentation was notable in

that it offered Prof. Campbell a chance to

connect his undergraduate research

experiences at Davidson to work that he

does now with students and colleagues at

Roger Williams.

Sonya Cates, Stephen Lawrence, Carla

Penedo and Viktoriia Samatova. “A

Machine Learning Approach to Research

Curation for Investment Process.” Journal of

Investment Management, Vol. 15, No. 1,

(2017).

Kelly Donnell, principal investigator, and

Jenny Tsankova of the School of Education

were joined by Jennifer Campbell, Writing

Studies, to engage Providence Public School

teachers in professional development

through Year Three of the PRIME-ELL

(Providence Rhode Island Math Excellence

– English Language Learners) grant. The

highlight of the grant experience this year

was the Summer Institute during which all

three faculty collaborated to deliver support

in infusing writing into mathematics

instruction for English Language Learners.

The Institute was held at the One Empire

campus in August, 2016. The three-year

grant concluded in December.

Elizabeth Duffy had her work Maximum

Security 50 States Project: Wisconsin that

included screen-printed papers that include

images of prisons in each state in the US, in

the exhibition Why Wallpaper at the Villa

Terrace Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Featured artists include Alpha workshops,

Elizabeth Duffy, Ebony G. Patterson,

Francesco Simeti, Christine Tarkowski,

Brigitte Zieger.

http://www.villaterracemuseum.org/exhibiti

ons.html . Duffy’s work explores the culture

of incarceration in the country.

Duffy’s work was also included in Soul

Searching at DM Contemporary in New

York from November 11-December 17. DM

Contemporary

http://www.dmcontemporary.com is

committed to be a platform for relevant art

that embodies the mood and spirit of the

moment. The exhibition features six

artists—Colin Chase, Linda Cummings,

Duffy, Susan Hamburger, Debra Priestly,

Cheryl Yun—whose work directly addresses

social, political and environmental issues.

One of Duffy’s works from 2004, Early

Bird, was recently released in Niche

magazine, and Israeli art and design journal.

Gail Fenske’s review essay, “Architect,

Engineer, and Builder” was published in the

Journal of Urban History in July. An

assessment of the key scholarly books

written on the subject since the late 1990s, it

explores the respective roles and intellectual

contributions of the architect, engineer, and

builder in the creation of major works of

architecture, infrastructure, and urban design

from the late 18th century to the present.

Fenske’s chapter, “Medievalism,

Mysticism, and Modernity in Early 20th-

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Century New York” will appear this spring

in Skyscraper Gothic: Medieval Style and

Modernist Buildings, edited by Kevin

Murphy and Lisa Reilly (University of

Virginia Press).

Ghanem, A., El Gafy, M., Korkmaz, K.: “A Network Approach to Investigate Coordination in Construction Projects: A Literature Review and Research Directions” proceeding of the The Ninth International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century, Dubai, UAE, March 5-7, 2017 El Gafy, M., Ghanem, A.: “An Evaluation of Engineer’s Estimates for Transportation Projects: A Michigan Case Study” proceeding of the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Seattle, Washington, April 5-7, 2017

Lopes, T., Ghanem, A., Celik, B. G., Core,

A.J. (2017) "Creation of an International

Green Building Accessibility Index” Poster

Presentation at the Associated Schools of

Construction 53rd Annual International

Conference, Seattle, Wa, USA, April 5-7,

2017. (Accepted for presentation by T.

Lopes – RWU CM Senior)

Sleight, R., Celik, B. G., Ghanem, A.,

Hentze, J. “Examining Common Issues

Encountered During Construction Project

Management.” Poster Presentation at the

Associated Schools of Construction 53rd

Annual International Conference, Seattle,

Wa, USA, April 5-7, 2017. (Accepted for

presentation by R. Sleight – RWU CM

Junior)

Anthes, L., Celik, B. G., Ghanem, A., Peahl,

K. (2017) " The Status of Green Building

Incentives and Mandates around the World.”

Poster Presentation at the Associated

Schools of Construction 53rd Annual

International Conference, Seattle, Wa, USA,

April 5-7, 2017. (Accepted for presentation

by E. Anthes – RWU CM Junior)

John Hendrix and Lorens Holm of the

University of Dundee, Scotland, edited

Architecture and the Unconscious, a new

book published in 2016 by Routledge,

London which was launched on December 9

at The Bartlett School of Architecture,

University College London. The launch

includes an evening of discussion exploring

the discourse between Architecture and

Psychoanalysis, with presentations by the

books contributors, and responses from

leaders in psychoanalysis and architecture in

the UK.

Leguizamo, A. & Campbell, J. (in

press). Consciousness Raising for 21st

Century Faculty: Using Lessons from

Diversity Flashpoints. In D. Liston & R.

Rahimi (Eds.). Forwarding a Social Justice

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Agenda Through the Scholarship of

Teaching and Learning. Bloomington, IN:

Indiana University Press.

Schaaf, S., Jeglic, E. L., Calkins, C.,

Raymaekers, L., & Leguizamo, A. (2016).

Examining Race and Ethnicity Related

Differences in Child Molester Typology: An

MTC:CM3 Approach. Journal of

Interpersonal Violence. Advance online

publication. doi:

10.1177/0886260516653550

Manzi, Stephanie, & Martland, Tricia.

(Forthcoming). Victim Right. In Bernat, F.

and Frailing, K. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of

Women and Crime. Wiley-Blackwell.

Manzi, Stephanie, & Dunn, Kathleen.

(2017). Chapter 7. Hate Crimes

Victimization: A Legal Perspective. In

Moriarty, L.J. and Jerin, R.A. (Eds), Current

Issues in Victimology Research, Third

Edition. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic

Press.

Philip Marshall participated as keynote

speaker at the Adult Abuse Training

Institute 2016: Community Collaboration:

How Partnerships Can Expand Your Toolkit

(program), New York State Office of

Children and Family Services and

Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging, Hunter

College / The City of New York. November

1-3, 2016. November 2.

47th Annual Meeting, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law; Course -

Forensic Evaluations in the Elderly (Read, Soliman, and Marshall), Workshop - Protecting Elders: Lessons from the Brooke Astor Case (Soliman, Read, and Marshall). Portland, OR. October 24-26, 2016. Workshop presentation (PDF file, 62 MB) Marshall served as guest speaker at the W by Worth evening to benefit Search and Care. September 22, 2016. Marshall presented at the NASAA 2016

Annual Conference, North American

Securities Administrators Association,

Providence, RI. September 13, 2016.

Speaker, Investor Education Session.

Published on Medium; Huffington Post.

Nicole Martino presented the poster titled,

“Coupling GPR and IR Thermography to

Detect Damage in Reinforced Concrete

Bridge Decks” at the 2017 Transportation

Research Board Annual Meeting. This was

an invited presentation as this project was

valued as one of the top sixteen state

research projects in the nation by the

American Association of State Highway and

Transportation Officials.

Martland, Trisha, & Manzi, Stephanie.

(Forthcoming). Stalking Victimization

Patterns. In Bernat, F. and Frailing, K.

(Eds.) Encyclopedia of Women and

Crime. Wiley-Blackwell.

Murray McMillan and Megan McMillan’s

work “While She Waits for Light” is

included in the exhibition Fertile Solitude at

the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts

from October 14-December 18, 2016. The

exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Devlin,

and includes the McMillans along with

artists Piper Brett, Caleb Cole, Emily

Eveleth, Dana Filibert, Cig Harvey, Kyle

Hittmeier, Annette Lemieux, Noritaka

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Minami, Hao Ni, Steven Pestana, Shelley

Reed, Erin M. Riley and Sarah Wentworth.

Devlin describes that Fertile Solitude hopes

to offer a reprieve from the madding crowd,

an oasis that coaxes us to look inward and

take steps towards overcoming our

widespread aversion to introspection.

An article authored by Geraldo Matos,

Gema Vinuales, and Daniel Sheinin, titled

“The Power of Politics in Branding” will be

published in the Journal of Marketing

Theory & Practice (Vol 25 issue 2). The

article deals with how consumers react when

brands becoming associated with political

and social causes.

Cathy Nicoli’s movement research involved

kinetic interpretations of Mark Rothko’s

paintings, as well as the Rothko Chapel.

This research synthesized in a dance work

called On Rothko’s Ground. The piece

brought 13 first semester freshmen into an

intensive interdisciplinary rehearsal process

that was both theoretical and experientially

practice based – culminating in 5

performances for RWU’s Dance Theatre.

Fall 2016

Nicoli is working with a group of dancers as

part of her RWU Foundation Grant:

Conservation Lands: Embodying the Sacred

Landscapes of Earth, Self, and Community.

This project will catalyze environmental and

somatic research in order to invigorate

pedagogical development, dance creation,

and performing arts production. The

objective is to reveal that wild, undeveloped,

landscapes are as crucial to protect as the

human imagination – and that conserving

both such landscapes, physical and psychic,

is necessary for sustained existence. This

research is fueling course development and a

new performance piece for RWU’s Dance

Theatre, spring 2017.

Autumn Quezada de Tavarez and Kerri

Warren co-authored a chapter “Designing

the Curriculum for Global Service Learning

Abroad: Power and Health in El Salvador”

in Passport to Change: Designing

Academically Sound, Culturally Relevant

Short Term Faculty-Led Study Abroad

Programs edited by Susan Lee

Pasquarelli, Robert A. Cole, and Michael J.

Tyson.

Quezada de Tavarez co-presented:

“Translating Transformational Learning:

Applying ISL Principles to Local

Community Engagement”4th International

Service Learning Summit, Global Service

Learning and Cooperative Development

Partnership summit, October 23-24, 2016 in

Manhattan, Kansas at KSU. Presenters:

Becky Spritz, Kerri Warren, Paola Prado

and Autumn Quezada-Grant

Robert Rambo co-authored “Market

Reaction to Reducing Reporting Risk:

Designating Foreign Currency Forward

Contracts as Cash Flow Hedges,” with

Daphne Main. The International Journal of

Finance, Volume 28, Number 1, 2016, pp

14-26.

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Michael Rich, Denny Moers, Lindsey Beal,

Kim Gatesman, and Amanda Means had

their one of a kind prints featured in an

exhibition titled Singular Repetitions at the

UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in

Downtown New Bedford. A reception,

AHA! Night, was held on Thursday,

February 9 from 7 to 9 pm with the artists

talk at 7.30 pm. Singular Repetitions

presents work created in various techniques

from daguerreotypes to electrostatic

monoprints, exploring the limits of

printmaking as a medium as well as

experimental approaches to the monoprint

and photographic monoprint.

Joseph W. Roberts was invited to write on

Iranian sanctions. He published “Are U.S.

Sanctions Justifiable: The Case of Iran?” in

ABC-CLIO in October 2015.

Roberts was invited to present at the Gulf

Research Meeting in Cambridge, UK in

August 2016. This conference is the

preeminent research gathering for scholars

doing work on the Persian (Arabian) Gulf

region of the Middle East. Professor Roberts

presented “Omani Foreign Policy: Balancing

Neutrality and Negotiation” for the

workshop “Foreign Relations of the GCC

Countries amid Shifting Global and

Regional Dynamics.” The paper will has

been submitted for a special edition of the

journal International Spectator and is

awaiting review. The research was

supported by a 2015-2016 Alwaleed

Fellowship from the National Council on

US-Arab Relations.

Workshop Participants at GRM 2016

Gulf Research Meeting 2016 Participants at

King’s College, Cambridge University

Jeffrey Silverthorne lectured and had his

work featured in San Francisco and Paris in

October and November 2016, and will be

featured in a Berlin Exhibition in December.

Silverthorne visited the San Francisco Art

Institute (SFAI) and a course “Sacred and

Profane” on October 13, and on October 14

offered a lecture, “Fingerprints” on his work

at SFAI’s Photo Alliance, which included an

introductory sentence, “I love photography,

the graven image which appears to be a

contradiction of time, a whimper and a shout

to immortality, which by the way is not

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listening, and a souvenir and memory of

curiosity and experience”.

Silverthorne’s solo exhibition “Studio

Work” opened in Paris on November 3 at

the Galerie Pascaline Mulliez, which

includes an exhibition catalog and essay by

Michel Piovert, Professor of the History of

Contemporary Art and Photography at the

Sorbonne. His exhibition, “New Work and

Darlings”, opens in Berlin December 3, and

runs through January 28, 2017. Another solo

exhibition opens in Berlin on December 2.

James Tackach reviewed The Gettysburg

Address: Perspectives on Lincoln’s Greatest

Speech, edited by Sean Conant, appeared in

the spring 2016 issue of The Lincoln Herald.

Mel Topf presented a paper at Yale Law

School last April, at an international

Symposium on Founding Moments in

Constitutionalism. Participants came from

16 countries. Mel’s paper was on

“Foundation and Revolution: Hannah

Arendt and the Problem of Legitimacy and

Stability in Constitutional Consolidation.”

An expanded version of the paper will

appear in a book on the subject later this

year.

Varano, Sean, & Manzi, Stephanie. (2016,

November). Police-Directed Problem

Solving: Providence, RI’s BCJI

Initiative. American Society of Criminology

Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.

Roberto Viola Ochoa was an invited

participant at the Cátedra Jorge Montes of

the Universidad del Istmo (UNIS) in

Guatemala in November. The event gathers

professionals in practice and academia from

all over the world to participate in a series of

conferences, discussions with students and

design charrettes dealing with a theme

proposed by the students. This year, under

the title “Roots of Change: Design

Throughout Time”, the event focused in

ways in which architecture and design are

learning from and reinterpreting traditions in

order to build a better future.

Viola Ochoa was invited to lead the

architecture design charrette, along with

UNIS professors Roberto Enrique Sosa and

Lourdes Monterroso. A group of 25 students

from UNIS, Universidad de San Carlos,

Universidad Francisco Marroquin and

Universidad Rafael Landivar took on the

challenge of designing a temporary structure

for Syrian/Iraqi refugees in a prominent

urban space in Zurich, Switzerland. The

students were organized in groups of 4

members who worked tirelessly and

intensely for three days; and culminated in a

presentation of their design.

Jeremy C. Wells submitted an abstract for

“Putting Preservation on the Road” titled

“Differences of ‘Substance’ between the

Treatment of Historic Automobiles and

Buildings: Impacts on Practice and

Collaboration”

Wells presented "Escaping from the System

of Heritage: What Practice Should Become

in 50 years” at the “Preservation in the US:

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50 Years On” conference in October at

Salve Regina University, Newport, RI. He

also presented

Wells also completed a book chapter “The

Main Street Approach to Community

Design” in Community-Built: Art,

Construction, Preservation, and Place. New

York: Routledge, 2016, edited by K.

Melcher, B. Stifel, K. Faurest.

Wells also presented “EDRA’s Leadership

in Understanding the Nature of “Good”

Design and Conservation” on the

Environmental Design Research Association

blog.

Wells’ research on “spontaneous fantasies”

was featured on WAMC Northeast Public

Radio on October 31, a short summary of

his research on “spontaneous fantasies” on

WAMC radio.

Ginette Wessel moderated the session

“Planning Smart Cities: Using Sound Media

and Big Data” at the Association of

Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual

Conference (ACSP) in Portland, OR on

November 3-5, 2016. Within the session,

Wessel also presented “Visualizing Tweets:

New Data-Driven Methods of Urban

Analysis” with several colleagues from the

University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Catherine Zipf’s article, “The Architecture

of American Slavery: Teaching the Black

Lives Matter Movement to Architects” was

published in Radical Teacher, an online

journal of the University of Pittsburgh, in

Fall 2016. Zipf describes “from its start, I

wanted to take the long view of the subject,

and to define both “architecture” and

“slavery” very broadly. The long view

created the opportunity to draw connections

between the past and the present—not just

plantation houses and slave quarters but

every space and landscape in which the

economic apparatus of slavery took form,

including sugar houses, cotton mills,

universities, missions, and public housing”

http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/ind

ex.php/radicalteacher/issue/view/11

In the Campus Classroom/Community Susan Bosco and her two Organizational

Behavior classes are working with the

Coggeshall Farm Museum in Bristol to

revise and develop their materials

addressing employee and volunteer human

resources practices.

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Sonya Cates and her students Nicholas Mole

and Dan Barron, as a project for their

Human Computer Interaction course,

thought of and created initial designs for a

mobile application to assist young adults

with autism to function more independently

in social settings. Their ideas received

positive feedback from professionals in the

autism community.

Geraldo Matos and his students in

Marketing 401/402 (Advertising Campaign

Research/Practicum) are preparing to

participate in this year’s National Student

Advertising Competition. They have been

working since September in an immersive,

experiential class to build an integrated

advertising campaign for the Tai Pei Asian

frozen foods brand. Students in the class

come from a range of disciplines, majoring

in Marketing, Graphic Design, Web

Development, Public Relations, and

Creative Writing. The students will compete

in the District 1 NSAC event held at

Endicott College on April 14, 2017.

Brett McKenzie hosted Stash Wislocki, from

FilmAid International and three refugees

resettled in Boston from the Kakuma

Refugee Camp, Kenya. FilmAid provides

psychological relief in the camps as well as

training youth in filmmaking and journalism

For the Quest for Refuge program. During

the visit Stash described the role of FilmAid

in the camps and screened the film, Lual and

Leila – a film written, directed and acted by

residents of the Kakuma Camp. October,

2016

Cathy Nicoli is partnering with First Works,

an arts and education organization based in

Providence, to link their artistic icon dance

series with her Dance and Performance

Studies students. Each partnership entails a

master class, artist talk, and field trip to see

the company perform. We have had an

exciting experience with the legendary Paul

Taylor Dance Company and look forward to

our experience with the acclaimed Rennie

Harris PureMovement Company, known for

being one of Hip Hop’s leading ambassadors

and one of the world’s most successful

dance companies in educating students

about the African American experience.

Nicoli mentored her Advanced

Choreography students for a performance art

installation, Living in Limbo: Stateless

Identities, as part of RWU’s Quest for

Refuge initiative. The performance took

place November 11, in GHH Atrium. The

project encompassed interdepartmental

research: Al Cutting’s Expressive Website

Design students used Living in Limbo as a

tool to learn website design, dance

photography, and dance production.

Michael DeQuattro, Dance and

Performance Studies resident accompanist

and composer, and Eric Christensen, a

RWU guitar teacher, also performed

alongside the Dance and Performance

Studies students.

Nicoli worked with RWU’s Women’s

Center again for the 4th annual performance

art ritual, STAND, on October 18. The

ceremony was as part of the Women

Center’s Silent Witness Initiative, which

raises awareness to issues of domestic

violence. She performed alongside

volunteer student performers – moving so

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slowly that it took a whole hour to go from a

fallen prone position to STANDing. This

kinetic metaphor intends to bring awareness

to the long and often arduous process

victims of domestic violence are faced with

as they try to exit the cycles of violence that

entrap them. Fall 2016.

Dahliani Reynolds and Kate Greene

collaborated on the Quest for Refuge

Community Story Project. Part of the

campus-wide programming relating

to the refugee crisis, the Community

Story Project is intended to give

voice to the stories of some of our

community members who have

settled here in the Ocean State.

Students in Professor Reynolds’

Multimodal Writing in Public

Spheres classes worked with thirteen

Rhode Island residents who came

here as refugees from Cambodia,

Colombia, Democratic Republic of

Congo, Guatemala, Haiti, and

Liberia. The community partners

shared stories about their quests for

refuge, exploring themes such as:

Why do people feel forced to leave

their homes? What happens to them

once they have left their

communities, their

countries? Where does their journey

take them? How can Rhode

Islanders act, individually, and

collectively, to ease their burden,

help them adjust to new lives, and

welcome them into our

communities? Students then created

short videos so that the community

partners might share their stories—in

their own voices—with the RWU

and Rhode Island communities, add

to the rich diversity of perspective

and experience that sustains this

“lively experiment. Videos are

available for viewing at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/U

Ccems5gFnBh2dGdcuhbUngg?view

_as=public

Leonard Yui and his students undertook a

collaborative project to design the Marine

and Natural Sciences Outdoor Classroom in

fall 2016, working collaboratively with

RWU’s Facilities, Sustainability Studies

faculty Loren Byrne. Students included

Harrison Carney, Adam Clary, Victoria

Fagan, Cameron Germond, Yiyu Han, Ally

Hess, Michael Jarmon, Rachel Kelly, David

Kitchen, Nathan Lynch, Nick Marques,

Wyatt Martineau, Linda Penaloza, Nick

Pyles, Joshua Seabrook, and Bryan Smith

involved in design and construction.

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Lindsey Gumb, Instructional Technology

Librarian, Linda Beith, Director for the

Center for Scholarship, Assessment,

Learning, Technology and Teaching, Russ

Beauchemin, Director of Instructional

Support & Learning Innovation, and Kelly

Donnell, SED faculty member, represented

RWU at the press release and round table

discussion for the Governor’s Open

Textbook Initiative at Rhode Island College

on September 27th. Kelly, an Open

Education Resource Faculty Fellow this past

fall, has been supported by these colleagues

in developing and utilizing free, openly

accessed resources in several courses,

resulting in zero textbook costs for students.

The team presented “Developing and

Implementing Affordable Excellence with

OER” at the New England Faculty

Development Consortium conference in

November, 2016. Linda and Kelly also

participated in the invitation-only Winter

Symposium on Digital Literacy in Higher

Education which brought together experts

from 14 states and 2 countries (including 30

faculty from eight Rhode Island institutions

of higher education) to explore the future of

digital literacy in higher education.

Kelly Donnell and a group of senior

Education students were accepted to present

at the New England Educational Research

Organization’s Annual Conference. The

team is piloting the process of Instructional

Rounds (similar to the medical rounds

model) during student teaching in an

elementary school in Providence. The group

is conducting action research with their host

teachers and will be traveling to Portsmouth,

N.H. to present their findings in April, 2017.

Gail Fenske has concluded her second term

of service on the Executive Committee

(Office of Secretary) for the Society of

Architectural Historians. The SAH is a

member of the American Council of

Learned Societies, has nearly 4,000

individual and institutional members, and

promotes the study, interpretation, and

conservation of architecture, landscapes, and

urban environments worldwide.

Amine Ghanem was a guest speaker and

participated in the Engineering News

Record (ENR) Webinar sponsored by B2W

titled: “Mobile Field Management for

Infrastructure Construction”.

Brett McKenzie held a half-day workshop

titled “Computers Unplugged” for 5th and

6th grade students on enacting computing

principles using common item such as sticky

notes, rocks, pingpong balls, and tape.

Computing principles including sorting

algorithms, steganography, and divide and

conquer. June 2016.

In the Community

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McKenzie was elected to the Board of Island

Moving Company – Newport County’s only

resident performing dance company

specializing in site specific classically

trained modern dance. July 2016.

McKenzie served as RWU Faculty

representative to the Social Entrepreneurship

Greenhouse, Brown University. November,

2016.

McKenzie served as judge for hack@Brown

a weekend hackathon for with an emphasis

on socially impactful applications of

computer science. Over sixty teams from

colleges and high schools participated in the

weekend event with support from Microsoft,

Google and other tech corporations.

February, 2017.

Cathy Nicoli recently taught in conjunction

with Lesley University’s Expressive

Therapies Program and the Laban Institute

of Movement Studies to train students on

their way to their Movement Analysis

certification - training that crosses a wide

range of disciplines, for example: the arts,

psychology, education, public speaking, etc.

Spring 2017.

Susan Pasquarelli is planning the RI

Writing Project Annual Spring Conference

for K-12 teachers on April 8, 2017 on the

Roger Williams University campus. The

theme of this year's conference is Writing

for Social Justice. The keynote speaker is

Linda Christensen, whose teaching career

has been devoted to crossing boundaries in

order to tap students' literacies and foster

human agency in the lives of both students

and their writing teachers. After

Christensen's keynote address, there are 12

breakout sessions, five of which feature

workshops designed and presented by the

graduating cohort of the RWU School of

Education's MA in Literacy Program.

James Tackach offered a lecture on the life

and Civil War career of Frederick Stowe,

son of Harriet Beecher Stowe, at the Rhode

Island Civil War Roundtable on October 19,

2016.

Teaching Firm in Residence SAAHP’s

unique Teaching Firm in Residence Program

brings important US architecture firms to

teach graduate coursework for semester long

stays.

Spring 2017: Gray Organschi Architecture,

New Haven

Spring 2017: designLAB, Boston

Fall 2016: Goody Clancy, Boston

Fall 2016: Joeb Moore Partners Architects,

Greenwich CT

Spring 2017 Teaching Firm in Residence

Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven

received national attention from Fall 2016

onward for 3 recent projects:

Common Ground Environmental Charter

School in New Haven, was published in

Architectural Record’s January 2017

“Schools for the 21st Century” issue.

Common Ground is the US’s longest

running environmental charter school.

The Cottage Featured in CNN Style. The

firms design was featured in the online

article "Great Escapes: The world's most

beautiful contemporary cottages" in the

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internationally distributed CNN

Style. http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/01/archi

tecture/most-beautiful-contemporary-

cottages/

The National Building Museum in

Washington DC’s exhibition, Timber City,

on mass timber buildings in the US features

two projects by Gray Organschi

Architecture, New Haven—the Common

Ground High School, and Mill River

Carousel Pavilion. Alan Organschi and

Andrew Ruff presented “Timber City:

Growing and Urban Carbon Sink with Glue,

Screws and Cellulose Fiber” at the World

Conference on Timber Engineering in

Vienna, Austria. The work is supported by

the Hines Research Fund for Advanced

Sustainability at Yale. Gray Organschi’s

ongoing research is part of the Spring 2017

Graduate Architectural Design Studio they

are teaching at RWU.

Spring 2017 Teaching Firm in Residence

designLAB, Boston won a Society of

College and University Planners (SCUP)

Excellence in Architecture for a New

Building Merit Award in Fall 2016, for the

Seton Hill Arts Center in Greensburg,

Pennsylvania.

Goody Clancy, Boston—Fall 2016 Teaching

Firm in Residence, received the US General

Services Administration (GSA) 2016 Design

Award for the Conrad B. Duberstein

Courthouse in Brooklyn, NY, for the firms

extensive architectural preservation work on

the building’s terracotta and granite facades.

Goody Clancy clients Louisville, KY and

Shreveport, LA were awarded two of ten

national grants amounting to $1 million each

in US Department of Housing and Urban

Development (HUD) grants to jumpstart

community and economic development

grants in distressed neighborhoods. Goody

Clancy is developing a Transformation Plan

for each location.

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Joeb Moore, Principal at Joeb Moore

Partners Architects, Greenwich, CT and Fall

2016 Teaching Firm in Residence, was

inducted into the New England Design Hall

of Fame at the New England Home

magazine annual gala on November 10. At

his induction, Moore was described as

“architect, intellectual, visionary—Moore’s

work explores the interface between the

social and the physical, between

convention and invention, and between

art and construction.” In December 2016,

he was elevated to the American Institute

of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows,

for his contributions to design.

Julian Bonder, Professor of Architecture,

was featured on Television Publica National

(TPN) in Buenos Aires, Argentina on

January 14, 2017, in its international

segment:. “”La construccion de espacios

publicos para la memoria” (The

Construction of Public Spaces for Memory).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptKPO9

DJAzg. Bonder is regularly involved in

conferences and publications on the subject

in the US, Europe and South America. He is

best known for his design for the Memorial

to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes, France

(with Krzystof Wodiczko).

Joseph Roberts has been named an editor of

the Journal of Political Science Education.

The editorial team is taking over the journal

as it transitions to become one of the four

flagship journals of the American Political

Science Association. The journal was

founded a decade ago as the journal of the

Political Science Education section of the

APSA.

As the press release announcing the new

editorial team said: “This team includes a

highly experienced editorial team who bring

together impressive breadth and depth of

experience in the Scholarship of Teaching

and Learning (SoTL),” noted the search

committee in its recommendation to the

APSA Council.

APSA President Jennifer Hochschild “We

very much look forward to working with

this editorial team to build the journal’s

visibility and importance to the discipline

and to all of our members.”

APSA Executive Director Steven Rathgeb

Smith highlighted the team’s inclusion of

highly experienced SoTL faculty from a

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diverse range of institutions. “This

combination provides compelling evidence

of their commitment to creating a

representative and inclusive discipline-wide

journal of political science education” he

said.

Press Release:

http://www.politicalsciencenow.com/apsa-

announces-new-editorial-team-for-the-

journal-of-political-science-education/